I've had difficulty with the allocation process too, mostly because my monthly income is unpredictable. I ended up allocating manual, as have others. daniel
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:58 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree with Trish in that the Allocate Income feature has never > worked quite how I would expect or how I would want so I end up doing > all my distributions manually. > > The problem here, in my opinion, is that there is no automated > changing of the "Spending Plan" amounts. Using Trish's example, if I > dine out more often this month and move funds from the Entertainment > bucket, I would have to manually reduce the Spending Plan amount for > Entertainment (and increase it for Dining Out), otherwise when I get > my next paycheck and use Allocate Income, it's going to try to replace > all that money that I "transfered" to the Dining out bucket. > > For this to work, you really need to tediously manage the Spending > Plan amounts for every bucket which becomes a chore. It seems like > MoneyWell could do something here to better automate this, but perhaps > other people use Spending Plan amounts in a different way and like the > way it works. > > -Lance > > > -- Daniel Shanahan Oakland, CA 94610 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
